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Image caption Sue and one of her “second mums”, Wendy They say you can’t choose your family – but why not? Sometimes an extra mother figure is just what you need, says Sue Elliott-Nicholls. I’m a mum collector. I’ve got a few of them – spare mums, just in case ...

Dodgers ace and three-time Cy Young Award winner Clayton Kershaw is scheduled to start Saturday opposite Jacob deGrom at Citi Field. Kershaw, who was placed on the DL June 1 with a lower back strain, was supposed to make a rehab start Saturday in Omaha, Nebraska, but Friday afternoon, he ...

Image copyright EPA Image caption The two ships work for the German NGO Mission Lifeline Italy has attacked Malta for refusing to take in a ship of migrants. Transport Minister Danilo Toninelli shared a photo of an email by the Maltese Armed Forces saying the vessel “has not manifested any ...

The Department of Homeland Security would not be able to use two big federal grant programs to pay for arming teachers, thanks to a provision tucked into House legislation that quietly passed this week. The measure blocks the funds from being spent to provide anyone with a gun or train ...

Image copyright EPA Image caption Members of the Windrush generation and their families were invited to the service at Westminster Abbey More than 2,000 people are at a thanksgiving service marking 70 years since the arrival of Caribbean migrants on the Empire Windrush ship to the UK. Hymns including Amazing ...

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Kate Spade’s suicide came as a shock, both to her husband (pictured) and the rest of her family US fashion designer Kate Spade has been laid to rest in her home town of Kansas City, Missouri, 16 days after her death by suicide. Less ...

Image copyright AFP Contributor/Getty Images Airbus has warned it could leave the UK if the country exits the European Union single market and customs union without a transition deal. The European planemaker said the warning was not part of “project fear, but its “dawning reality”. Airbus employs about 14,000 people ...

Krauthammer, who lived most of his life in a wheelchair after a diving board accident as a first-year medical student, could not be pigeonholed, as his thinking evolved politically over the years from a speechwriter for Walter Mondale who believed in a woman’s right to choose and an advocate of ...

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Melania Trump was spotted in the jacket while boarding her flight to Texas First Lady Melania Trump has been criticised for the choice of her jacket worn on a trip to a migrant child detention centre in Texas. Mrs Trump was spotted in the ...

Unfortunately, elite universities typically use affirmative action and other non-merit admissions for politics, not learning. Differential admissions open doors for the children of (mainly white) rich alumni who provide donations, for athletes who win games, and for African-Americans and Hispanics who offer political inoculation against charges of racism. In the ...